#2380 (Was: Re: 2.7.7 candidate)

On Sat, Oct 3, 2009 at 5:45 PM, Miles Sabin wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 3, 2009 at 4:39 PM, Paul Phillips wrote:
>> I don't think #2380 needs to remain terrifying (although the fact that
>> it's closed isn't good, is there an open ticket documenting the general
>> issue?) It does add to the number of things which have to be thought
>> about to have unsurprising releases, which points back toward having
>> more transparent and reproducible processes.
>
> The bug against the IDE is closed, because ... it's fixed.
>
> I was hoping for some feedback on the issue (see the separate thread
> on this list) before creating a new ticket against the compiler.
>
Isn't that a build problem? Would the proper fix not be to build the
1.5 distribution with the 1.5 library, and the 1.6 distribution with a
1.6 library? Note that from 2.8 on we will have a separate 1.5
distribution, which seems to be a good ling in light of this issue.

Cheers